Windermere Turns Down Road Request Isleworth Developer Told To Send Trucks Around Town

June 14, 1985|By Marge McWilliams, Special to The Sentinel

WINDERMERE — Town council members have turned down a request by developers of the Isleworth residential and golf course project to drive more large trucks through Windermere.

Isleworth spokesman Peter Fox told the council Tuesday that the trips by 80 cement trucks would be spaced over a period of time.

But council members stuck to their ban of large trucks traveling through town.

The town's ordinance barring trucks from traveling through town exempted the 1,600-acre Chase citrus grove property, which has been sold to the developers for the Isleworth project outside the town's southern border.

In January the council passed an amendment excluding that property from the ordinance after the Isleworth developer had hauled more than 400 tractor- trailer loads of equipment through town. The amendment says the town manager, with the council's approval, may grant an exception if a request is made in writing.

Residents said the developer should concentrate on building a construction entrance off Conroy-Windermere Road or bring the trucks through the Chase Road entrance.

Chase Road, which goes through the Isleworth property, is closed for improvements and realignment by the developer. It is scheduled to be reopened Jan. 31, 1986.

Residents said they fear the repair of the damage to their roads caused by the trucks would come out of their pockets.

In other council business:

-- Mayor Carl Patterson told the council that the town has filed a lawsuit against the six owners of five boathouses on a north Lake Butler lagoon. The town says it owns the land the boathouses are on. It gave the owners 30 days to sign a lease with the town. The boathouse owners refused and submitted a signed agreement. The suit asks that the town be allowed to take possession of the boathouses.

-- The council received a revised version of an updated occupational license law, which is expected to be before the council for action in July.